You ask your patients the day/date? ah that'd be just for your to write the details on your patient record n'est-ce pas? ;0) If a crew came to me and asked taht question i think i'd wanna hit them. It's something i never ask and become quite exasperated when someone doe esp GPs!. what's your date of birth... what have you done today... there are plenty of other questions for checking short-term memory loss. Strangely enough i am better at remembering days than dates. What are you doing on the 17th? what day is that? it's next thursday Ahhh. I am on days! Sorted! thanks for the intro to xkcd, Tom. Something else to get my teeth in to - as such :0)